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HIND1200 Hindi 1B

First Year Course

Offered By School of Culture, History and Language
Academic Career Undergraduate
Course Subject Hindi
Offered in Second Semester, 2010 and Second Semester, 2011
Unit Value 6 units
Course Description

This course provides students with a basic ability to speak, read and write Hindi. Hindi 1B together with Hindi 1A is the foundation course for those who wish to continue on to Urdu studies in second year.

Syllabus: (a) Development of conversational skills in Hindi and Urdu;

(b) instruction in reading and writing the Devanagari script as used for Hindi; 

(c) explanation of the grammar of Hindi and Urdu; 

(d) reading of graded texts in the Hindi script

(e) original compositions in the Hindi script.

As Hindi and Urdu are identical in grammar and basic vocabulary, Hindi 1B provides foundational skills for those interested in learning Urdu.

 

 

Learning Outcomes On satisfying the requirement for this course, students will have the knowledge and skills necessary to speak, read and write the language at the level appropriate for the course.
Indicative Assessment

Semester based testing 40%, written assignments 50% and class participation 10%.

Workload

Contact Hours: Five contact hours per week

Eligibility

Prerequisites: HIND1008 or HIND1100 or equivalent (HIND1002 plus HIND1006) or permission of coordinator

Requisite Statement


Incompatibility

Incompatible: HIND1003, HIND1007 and SWAH1003

Prescribed Texts

Prescribed Texts: Barz, R.K. and Yadav, Y.K., An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 2000

Barz, R.K. and Yadav, Y.K., Hindi Exercise Manual with CD set, South Asia Centre, Canberra, 1994

Bulcke, C., An English-Hindi Dictionary, S. Chand, New Delhi, 1997

McGregor, R.S., The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1993

Majors/Specialisations Hindi Language and Urdu Language
Academic Contact Richard Keithm Barz

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